# Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories

By Mary Wollstonecraft.

"Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories" by Mary Wollstonecraft is a children's book first published in 1788. Two young girls, Mary and Caroline, are sent to live with the wise Mrs. Mason after their mother's death. Through stories, lessons, and real-world examples, Mrs. Mason works to cure the girls of their moral failings—greediness, vanity, and other faults—and teach them to become rational, virtuous women. The book challenges eighteenth-century assumptions about female education and champions the power of proper childhood instruction. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Editor: E. V. Lucas
- Illustrator: William Blake
- Subjects: Short stories; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Children's stories; Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Animal welfare -- Juvenile fiction; Didactic fiction, English; Virtues -- Juvenile fiction

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